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The Who's Who of Zen BuddhismFri, 09 Dec 2016 09:11:14 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Recalling Nichidatsu Fujiihttp://sweepingzen.com/recalling-nichidatsu-fujii/
http://sweepingzen.com/recalling-nichidatsu-fujii/#commentsSat, 18 Jan 2014 20:06:23 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=94540In 1982, I was one of a small group of Zen students who were invited to an audience with Nichidatsu Fujii. Guruji, as he was affectionately known, was making a short visit to Los Angeles on his way back to Japan following that spring’s historic nuclear disarmament activities in New York, which he and his ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/recalling-nichidatsu-fujii/feed/1Only Connect by Andrew Cooperhttp://sweepingzen.com/only-connect/
http://sweepingzen.com/only-connect/#respondTue, 28 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=44314Although E. M. Forster could hardly have intended that the epigraph to his novel Howards End—“Only connect”—serve as a two-word distillation of the Buddha’s teachings, it certainly is a good, and timely, one. To connect across the differences that divide us; to connect by building bonds of affection, understanding, and support; to connect in the ...

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http://sweepingzen.com/the-contenders/#respondTue, 20 Dec 2011 21:06:25 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/2011/12/20/the-contenders/This piece originally appeared in Tricycle I first heard of Marlon Brando’s death, in July 2004, while sitting in a café a few blocks from my former home in Oakland,California. My daughter, Alana, and I were just getting ourselves settled at our favorite table, and I was making some kind of small talk, when her ...

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/the-contenders/feed/0Why Buddhists Should Read Marxhttp://sweepingzen.com/why-buddhists-should-read-marx/
http://sweepingzen.com/why-buddhists-should-read-marx/#commentsWed, 15 Jun 2011 20:48:24 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=32272Not long ago, H. H. the Dalai Lama called himself “half Marxist”. Everyday, we in the U.S. read of efforts to undermine social programs and channel more money into the hands of those who own most of the nation’s wealth. So I thought this might be a good time to take this short essay out ...